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Al Sheehan
Born(1899-10-08)October 8, 1899
Caledonia, Minnesota, US
DiedJanuary 17, 1967(1967-01-17) (aged 67)
St. Louis Park, Minnesota, US
Alma materWinona Teachers College

Alvin Barrett Sheehan (October 8, 1899–January 17, 1967) was an American entertainment businessman.

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Early life and education

  • Alvin Barrett Sheehan was born on October 8, 1899, in Caledonia, Minnesota.[1]
  • Alvin B. Sheehan spent his early years in Winona, Minnesota. After World War I, he obtained a teaching certificate from Winona Teacher's College, but never taught.[2]
  • Alvin B. Sheehan joined a Chautauqua show as a teenager in Winona. He earned a teaching certifiate at Winona Teacher's College.[3]
  • Alvin Barrett Sheehan was born in Caledonia, Minnesota, 49 years ago (as of 1949), moved to Winona at an early age, raised in a family of teachers, attended Winona Senior High School where he participated in the school play and drama class. During high school, he joined the Chautauqua circuit. He attended Winona Teachers College where he studied drama, took part in school production, graduated with a teaching certificate, but never taught. After college, his family did not permit him to join travelling theater companies, then he became a reporter for the Winona Republican Herald, and reviewed productions by the Winona Little Theatre Movement, and occasionally acted in their plays. He also worked for the Frank Winninger Stock Company in Winona.[4]
  • By 1921, he quit the newspaper, moved to Minneapolis working for the Soo Line Railroad traffic division. He also joined an amateur theatrical troupe which worked in 60 theatres in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. In 1922, he became manager of the troupe, overseeing logistics and business. He enjoyed the business aspect of theater, which prepared him for becoming a producer and agent. Leaving Soo Line, he worked for the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company traffic division. After three years, he returned to Winona buying into a soda pop distribution business for $1. He travelled to state fairs and circuses, selling to concessionaires, after four years, he sold his share of the business for $5,000.[4]

Radio career

  • In 1928, he started working in radio for WCCO (AM). By 1932, he was a full-time radio announcer and talent manager. He played voice parts in radio mystery shows, he did previews and interviews from theaters and concert halls, and was an announcer for Minneapolis Millers baseball games. He was WCCO's expert on contract bridge, but did not "know one card from another".[2]
  • In 1928, he started working in radio for WCCO (AM). He announced Minneapolis Millers home games from Nicollet Park, and broadcast road games via ticker tape.[3]
  • Returning to Minneapolis in 1928, he worked customer service in a stocks and bonds business. While there, he met John Seaman Garnes of the MacPhail School of Music and Dramatic Art, Minneapolis. Impressed by Sheehan's voice, Garnes advised him to apply as a part-time announcer for WCCO, operated by the Columbia Broadcasting System. He worked 6pm until midnight on the radio, while still selling stocks and bonds. On radio, he did studio programs, musicals, dramatic shows, fetures, special events. He became the station's contract bridge expect, despite "not knowing a trump from a rubber". Since 1929, Sheehan had performed Minnesota State Fair announcements. Still working part-time by 1930, he was made chief announcer and was master of ceremonies at the Minnesota and State Theaters. He also staged shows at Excelsior Amusement Park connected to the park's top presentations. By 1932, he worked full-time with WCCO, did Minneapolis Millers baseball play-by-play in the summer, and Minnesota Golden Gophers football in the fall. Also in 1932, Sheehan established the radio's talent office, the WCCO Artist's Bureau. He continued doing featured commercials while running the bureau and managing talent for the radio station. In 1935, the bureau became a separate corporation, with Sheehan as the local manager, and no longer being an entertainer or announcer. The Federal Communications Commission then ordered radio stations to divest themselves of talent subsidiaries, and Sheehan returned to WCCO as the assistant general manager. In 1938, Sheehan was appointed superintendent of attractions at the Minnesota State Fair.[4]

Talent agent and producer

  • He departed radio in 1945, to begin the Al Sheehan Talent Agency. Sheehan was producer of the Aqua Follies for 20 years, at the Theodore Wirth Park pool until 1964, featured Olympic diving champions, the Aqua Dears and Aqua Darlings, part of the Aquatennial. He also produced night club acts, the Edgewater Eight at the Edgewater Inn in Minneapolis, and the Golden Strings who performed at the Flame Room of the Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis. He produced 1,000 shows per year for business and conventions.[2]
Medora Musical
  • He was master of ceremonies and superintendant of grandstand attractions at the Minnesota State Fair. He worked full-time in radio until 1954 (1945?), when he founded his own talent agency. He produced a travelling act for Hormel Foods, where pretty girls in white care sold meat products during the 1950s. He later produced musical variety shows, the Edgewater Eight at the Edgewater Inn, and the Golden Strings who performed at the Flame Room of the Radisson Hotel. shows from his talent agency filled various genres, and travelled all over the United States. He stated, "We can take on any kind of show". He produced an annual North Dakota history musical spectular, performed at the Medora Musical. Sheehan's primary fame was the Aqua Follies annual show at the Theodore Wirth Pool.[3]
  • The Edgewater Inn was located at 2420 NE Marshall Street in Minneapolis, along the Mississippi River. On October 25, 1962, the Edgewater Inn first presented the Edgewater Eight. Dan Sullivan of the Tribune reported that this was a “new concept in night club entertainment.” The group of young singers would present medleys of Broadway show tunes in the round on the dance floor. (October 21, 1962) Don McGrane’s Riverboat Orchestra. Produced by Al Sheehan.[7]
  • From 1957 to 1961, the Radisson hotel underwent a $7-million refurbishing program that added a new and larger Flame Room. New owner Curt Carlson and Al Sheehan brought the Golden Strings to the Flame Room. Carlson had seen a dazzling violin show in Mexico City in 1962. He asked Sheehan to put a similar act together, and the new ensemble, named the Golden Strings, opened in the Flame Room on February 16, 1963. The group – made up of eight violins, a bass violist, and two baby grand pianos – played the room until 1981, when the hotel closed. Performing before more than two-million people over more than 18 years. the Golden Strings was, according to Variety magazine, the longest running violin show in the world.[8]
Green Lake Aqua Theater
  • The Green Lake Aqua Theater for the Seafair summer festival. The Aqua Follies held court on the lake's southwest shore for about two weeks each summer from 1950 to 1965. Billed as a "swim-musical review," the follies were a slapstick medley of divers, dancers and synchronized swimmers performing a vaudeville-style lineup of skits and aquatic feats. In their heyday, the follies drew sellout crowds of 5,000-plus, even for "Moonlight Matinees" that started at 11:30 p.m. The follies of yesteryear, emceed by celebrities such as Bob Hope and Bert Parks, featured the comic routines of ex-Olympic divers, who peppered their acts with high dives from a pair of towers bookending the floating theater. The Aqua Dears, a group of about 30 college-age women, performed synchronized swimming ballets, while their stage counterparts, the Aqua Darlings, presented dance numbers. Most of the performers were from the Aqua Follies' home city of Minneapolis, where they were recruited by flamboyant producer/director Al Sheehan.[10]
  • In 1954, the Aqua Follies, presentation of synchronized swimmers, Olympic divers, and aquatic acrobatics. As The Seattle Times described the show in a 1999 article: “The follies were a slapstick medley of divers, dancers, and synchronized swimmers performing a vaudeville-style lineup of skits and aquatic feats.” The Follies began in Minneapolis in 1940 and began touring around the country under the direction of producer and director Al Sheehan. They even offered “Midnight Matinees,” which began at 11:30 p.m. The Follies in Belle Isle Park, where they also performed their act. The Aqua Dears, a complement of about 30 synchronized female swimmers, were the backbone of the Aqua Follies, supported by the “dry” Aqua Darlings, who danced on the stage. By the mid 1960s, the Aqua Follies made their last splash.[11]
Aqua Follies poster at the1965 Seafair
  • In 1943, Sheehan and Lyle Wright, the owner-operator of the Minneapolis Arena, took over control of the Aqua Follies. Sheehan was the president of Aqua Follies Incorporated, with Wright as the treasurer. Sheehan also produced and directed the Aqua Follies since 1943, brought in his own talent to perform a ballet on water. Sheehan and Wright agreed to give a portion of gate receipts to the Aquatennial festival, and otherwise operate independently. Sheehan brought in performers such as, Gloria Callen, Patty Robinson Fulton, and Vicki Draves. In 1945, he resigned from the radio business, to get into his own business and returned to the Artist's Bureau, which he incoporated and is president and treasurer. In 1945, Sheehan began bringing in artists for special concerts at the Minneapolis Auditorium, including Hazel Scott, Jascha Heifetz, and Risë Stevens. As of 1949, he has not yet accepted offers to take his show on a tour outside of Minneapolis. Billboard magazine called him "Mr. Show Business of Minnesota".[4] Footnote for Patty Robinson Fulton, inductee into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

Personal life

  • In 1942, he married Bailey Levitan, known professionally as Rea Bailey, a former staff organist at WCCO and KSTP (AM). He is a member of the Minneapolis Athletic Club, the Scottish Rite, the Zuhrah Temple Shrine, and the American Legion. As of 1949, he was president of the Minneapolis Kiwanis Club.[4]
  • He had two sisters, and was married to Bee Sheehan. Sheehan died on January 17, 1967, in Minnetonka, Minnesota, from a heart attack, was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Winona, Minnesota.[2]

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References

  1. ^ Minnesota, World War II Draft Registration Cards, Serial number 1145, vol. 1940–1947, Hennepin County, Minnesota: Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs
  2. ^ a b c d "Services Set for Producer Al Sheehan". Star Tribune. Minneapolis, Minnesota. January 18, 1967. p. 34.
  3. ^ a b c d "Aqua Follies Producer Dies at 66". The Minneapolis Star. January 17, 1967. p. 1.; "Sheehan (Continued from Page One)". The Minneapolis Star. January 17, 1967. p. 4.
  4. ^ a b c d e Weinberg, Jack (September 17, 1949). "Sheehan's Title of Mr. Show Biz of Minn. Is Well Earned". Billboard. New York City. pp. 49, 52. Retrieved May 31, 2025 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Minneapolis Aquatennial Loses $1,158". Billboard. New York City. September 24, 1949. p. 57. Retrieved October 17, 2018 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Hagner, John (December 2016). "Stunts, Stars and Legends". Moab Happenings Archive. Moab, Utah. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  7. ^ Andersen, Jeanne. "Edgewater Inn". Twin Cities Music Highlights. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  8. ^ Andersen, Jeanne. "Radisson Hotel". Twin Cities Music Highlights. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  9. ^ Bean, Dawn Pawson (2005). Synchronized Swimming: An American History. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 14. ISBN 9780786419487.
  10. ^ Batsell, Jake (May 25, 1999). "For Seafair's 50th, Here Come The Aqua Follies, Classic Summer Shtick That Once Mesmerized Seattle". The Seattle Times. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  11. ^ Bulanda, George (August 28, 2019). "The Way It Was–The Aqua Follies". Hour Detroit. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  12. ^ "S Surnames". Woodlawn Cemetery. Winona County, Minnesota. Retrieved May 31, 2025.


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